Flipperbot, the robot in the video below, was designed to test how sea turtles and other real-life organisms move outside the water.
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A new US Forest Service study shows that through removing fine particles in the air, urban forests save an average of one life every year per city. In New York City alone, eight lives are saved annually on average.
Plastic? Where to start! It’s now the number one form of ocean debris, and muscled its way up the food chain, starting, of course, with hungry microbes. Recent research confirmed […]
“How I’ll gobble Paris up, if I’m lucky enough to go back there!” painter Fernand Léger wrote in a 1915 letter home from the front lines of World War I. […]
David Foster Wallace’s classic 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College was not well known until after his death. In the video below, this great piece of life advice is given visual accompaniment courtesy of The Glossary.
I just read an alarming piece on what the world will look like, possibly soon, when the efficacy of our current arsenal of antibiotics really starts to fade. There […]
Technology has a scarcity-liberating capability. It takes that which is scarce and can make it abundant.
How are we supposed to communicate about science in an age when political partisanship and media hype dominate the 24/7 news cycle?
What a surfer’s story can teach us about the promises we make to ourselves about the future.
The nicest response to a critic who gives a product (particularly films, games, comics, etc.) a low score is fans’ insistence that the critic is wrong. Of course, many fans […]
Proust’s lesson is, “I lay in bed and by looking at things properly, and I felt properly alive.”
Driving through Yosemite a few years ago, we came upon a blackened patch of the park still smelling burnt. By the look of this map, it must have been the […]
The second-largest desert city also has exceptionally high levels of humidity, which the billboard converts into water that citizens can access via a simple spigot.
New research suggests that the “green” part of “greenhouse effect” is really working. While having more plants may sound good, it’s still not clear how or whether desert areas will be affected.
A couple of years ago Dr Mirjam Tuk won an IgNobel prize for the paper “Inhibitory Spill-Over: Increased Urinating Urgency Facilitates Impulse Control in Unrelated Domains” in Psychological Science. Tuk […]
On the question of whether or not black people can swim the answer is yes, no and maybe. I asked the question in my book of a very special panel. […]
To truly help developing societies, we need to answer their immediate needs.
The icy surface of this Jupiter moon hides a vast body of liquid that most scientists believe is water. Thanks to improved spectrometry, they now believe that that water may be salty.
Designed with poor communities in mind, the $40 GiraDora works similarly to a salad spinner and allows its user to sit down, avoiding the pain associated with transporting water and washing clothes by hand.
Feedback is important to every large organization, and complaints are one of the ways that big companies get feedback from their customers.
Ganymede and Europa have many of the conditions that could support life as we know it. We’ll find out if and when an internationally-sponsored probe — Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE — gets there in 2030.
In September I covered a paper that described the massive amount of bias created in the legal system in parts of the US where forensic laboratories are paid in return […]
While Europe is known to have nearly as much exploitable natural gas as the United States, its countries are far behind the curve set by American companies for fear of environmental pollution.
NASA has announced that its most recent Mars rover, Curiosity, recently found evidence of substantial water stores present on the planet’s surface billions of years ago.
To kids and adults who fear injections, Buzzy looks like a plastic toy. However, when applied to the skin, its vibrating motor and ice pack block the pain of the needle.
A lot of the great successes in life were overnight successes after 10 years of hard work.
We don’t think or exist in empty space; we need nourishment from the earth, literally, to live and create.
Scientists borrowed the latching ability of the spiny-headed worm to create a microneedle device that is over three times stronger than staples and easier to remove, making it ideal for delicate skin grafts.
Certain forms of nitrogen contribute to a host of health and environmental problems. A new tool helps individuals see how their lifestyle choices fit into the larger sustainability picture.
Researchers found that simply looking at and holding a bottle of pain medication “nonconsciously decrease[d] pain sensitivity” in test subjects.